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PulteGroup (
PHM) pushed the Materials & Construction industry lower today making it today's featured Materials & Construction laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.1%. By the end of trading, PulteGroup fell 54 cents (-3.3%) to $16.09 on light volume. Throughout the day, 8.8 million shares of PulteGroup exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 14.6 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $16.03-$16.56 after having opened the day at $16.53 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $16.63. Other companies within the Materials & Construction industry that declined today were:
India Globalization Capital (
IGC), down 17.9%,
Orion Marine Group (
ORN), down 6.3%,
Pure Cycle Corporation (
PCYO), down 4.9%, and
Guanwei Recycling (
GPRC), down 3.9%.

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PulteGroup, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in homebuilding and financial services businesses primarily in the United States. PulteGroup has a market cap of $6.36 billion and is part of the
industrial goods sector. Shares are up 162.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are six analysts that rate PulteGroup a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates PulteGroup as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including generally higher debt management risk and poor profit margins.